Bambi & Birdy

Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014

I am dreaming of a summer vacation... and the whole day the Provence came into my mind. I have no plans this year, sadly, but a bunch of stuff to learn... So it might be just a dream to travel this summer to a far away country or a region I have never been to...

Here I love to share with you a small list of places I would practically die to see:
(the order can change within a minute... it's just a feeling I have right now)

If I think about the Provence, I think of the beautiful landscape I saw all my life in the drawings of Bambi's Grandpa. The powerful purple lavender is deeply anchored in my head, even though I've never been there. But I can smell the aroma of the fields and can taste the amazing French food!

An old small fisher town with a lot of history. Salvador Dalí lived there more or less his whole life. Port Lligat is today the place you can find Dalí's and Gala's (his wife) house as a museum. To start my vacation in Barcelona, to drive alongside the beach to Cadaqués, feel the sun and breath the air Dalí loved so much...

We have never been there either, but thought about it a hundred times... Prague, I heard so many good things about you. It has to be the perfect city to conquer by foot. You can reach everything easily and if you get tired at last, there is still the Moldau where I imagine me sitting on a small ship, eating cake and drinking a glass of wine, while seeing beautiful Prag from the river...

Montag, 28. Juli 2014

As a ballerina, my heart jumps up every time I see dancers, musicians or just people who love the rhythm as much as I do. In Spain, I fell in love with the flamenco dancers in polka dot costumes... Here in Germany, I am again in love with classic and modern ballet. As a treat to our selves we looked once more the beautiful film -PINA- , made by Wim Wenders, in honor to the dancer and artist Pina Bausch. It is an epic one and if you guys out there never have seen it before, I really recommend you do... run or better dance to see the wonderful and breath-taking assemble of the Wuppertaler Tanztheater (dance theater). I promise, this will change your view of dancers forever!

Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014

One of my favorite blogs in the internet world is the - the minimalists - . Here and there we wrote about this totally amazing guys, who woke up one day and got rid of everything that makes you feel heavy, thats fills up your space, your home and your life. The minimalists write about getting rid of all the unimportant junk, that we all hoard somewhere.

Because we will have some changes around our flat, I guess, I started the whole game of cleaning and getting rid of junk again. Some of my roommates move out and start a new chapter of life and others, me for example, switched rooms. I got an awesome newroom with a small balcony and you can not believe how much I am looking forward to it.

B and I have flowers, fruit trees, chains of lights and glitter in mins and can't wait to begin our new project. Of course, we will document everything and let you know how it went!

Back to minimalizing my life... we wrote about it a lot, we tried it a lot, but time is rare...
But still, I do have stuff, actually, had stuff. This month I started and I needed to get more space for myself. First I cleaned out my closet. Happily, I life in a big flat with a lot of girly girls running around, so I gave away stuff that didn't fit me anylonger. Than, yesterday morning I started cleaning around my workplace. I study spanish, grammar, literature... and sociology, politics. So I need to read many papers and as you can imagine, they are lying everywhere. I basically live and sleep in paper. I got rid of most of it. I organized the important papers and am sitting right now at a clean and open space, where I can see out of the window, can put coffee on my table and enjoy working again. What a wonderful thing it is to minimalize your life and get more time, space and freedom as a reward.

Freitag, 11. Juli 2014

Passion makes us do things
like fall in love with strangers
on a two day binge
doing unspeakable things
to one another
making our bodies cringe
moments of pleasure
we´ll both soon forget
but living fast is fun
the best time spent!

Monday always forbids us
introducing the heartbreak game
you used my body
and I forgot your name

weekends are simply a fantasy
with their share of pain
"it was nice knowing you,
glad you came!"

Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014

A week ahead of us with a heart broken in two peaces. One part, still full of light about the many amazing people in our life and the memories we share with them. The other fighting back the tears of anger and sadness.

Today marks the first year without my wonderful Grandma. She passed away after a hard but good life. She taught me more about the world and the people who live in it than any other person I know. Her strong will and her loving heart are still with me. The days pass away, but the memories of her holding tightly on to my hand, to let me know she is here and will be here forever, will never go away.

Life is about changes, some we take and some we let go. Ever in need to make the right decision, to be brave and strong and never loose ourselves. But at the end, loosing yourself and putting it piece by piece back together might be the best experience you will ever have.

After my Granny lost my Grandpa pretty early in her live, she needed time and space for her family and to pull herself together. Rise and shine like a Phoenix out of ashes, she broke down and got up all new, bright and colorful. Life definitely is hard work, loneliness, depression, anger, but on the sunny days you can see the sky and we all know, just the sky is the limit!

Right now, I guess she sits on a star, holds the hand of my Grandpa and they both can´t wait to see the World Cup Final together! Miss you both so much!

Dienstag, 8. Juli 2014

The pain a body has to suffer while it fights against cancer is hard to mention, and so is the sorrow of knowing that you might have to let it all go. We all have to think one day about our own death, life after it or death in general. To let your own life go might be hard, closes your throat and water your eyes. But to let them go, the people who loved you the most, fought for you... leaving them in a bitter sweet pain of missing you, but also feeling the relieve to know that your pain finally stopped, lets us be so damn afraid of death...

Right now, my thoughts fly to a wonderful woman who fights against a pain we can not imagine in our darkest dreams. The sadness her family feels, we all feel by the idea of loosing her, is overwhelming. Even if we are far away and can not hold your hand, we hold your heart and we are with you!

Montag, 7. Juli 2014

This post is dedicated to a wonderful guy, who finished his A-Levels, turned 20 yesterday and will soon fly out into the world! I hope deeply that life treats you kindly and gives you as much passion, adventure and happiness as you need! You will do wonderful, I know that and I am pretty glad to have known you for so long. So go on, fly away, conquer life with its ups and downs.
Being out there is not easy, but it's definitely worth it!

So, wonderful boy, I wish you the best life of all lifes!
...and I will not stop cheering for you, I hope you know that!

Freitag, 4. Juli 2014

I have been obsessed with Judaism lately. During my theology studies, I fell deeply in love with the Old Testament (more or less the Jewish Tanakh) and have been reading, thinking, praying ever since. I am far, far from making any life changing decisions (such as converting- site note: is it converting if you don't have a religion to begin with?). For now, I just deeply enjoy being in touch with G-d and am hopeful that I will be led exactly where I belong.
Part of my exploring Judaism is observing, in the least observing way possible, the Shabbat. So, starting Friday with sundown, my life slows down, I try not to work, try to live in a more conscious manner and try to listen to all those things going on in my soul that are usually drowned out by the noise of everyday life. So far, I can say that stopping the rat race for a day, truly helps me stay sane, and close to my spiritual site (is that in itself a sign? In case you're a reader of this blog, dear Almighty, please let me know...I'm a bit desperate for answers).
To all those of you observing the Shabbat, I say Shabbat Shalom, to my Muslim relatives and friends, I send strength and joy in Ramadan and all the rest, I wish a wonderful, calm, love-filled weekend!

Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2014

We are really inspired by so many wonderful bloggers world wide and their creative summer ideas. What seems to be in style right now are bright and luminous lipsticks. Last weekend we were really lucky, because our wonderful friend Noura gave us as a present so many more lipsticks than we probably could ever use in one life. She is just amazing!
Because we are girly girls we had to use the new products immediately and see which color represents summer the best. The lipsticks are from the -Body Shop-, a company that has high standards for their products. But their standards reach far more than just the natural beauty and health of their costumers. -Body Shop- is one of the companies who fight for animal rights and against animal testing, for fair trade, defense of our planet and works hand in hand with NGOs to protect human rights.

What we found out in our own lipstick investigation is that this summer the lipsticks have to be bright, glittery and shiny. The more the better... Their are no limits, we just need pink, red, orange lips!